Word: caseys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater predicted will be a "critical and tough" report. Among other things, the commission is believed to have found deep CIA involvement in illegal arming of the contras. As a result, the agency's deputy chief Robert Gates, Reagan's nominee to succeed ailing William Casey as CIA director, may face heated questioning at Senate confirmation hearings this week...
...Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) charged Gates with trying to evade responsibility for "skimpy, scanty and really misleading" testimony that he said former CIA boss William J. Casey presented to the committee last year...
Gates was deputy CIA director at the time, and Specter said, "You are trying to distance yourself from that testimony," He said Gates' explanation of his role as having directed preparation of Casey's testimony but not its details carried "a shade of dissembling...
...there were enough disco songs for Casey Kasem to spend four hours counting down "the top disco hits of all time." The highlight of the chart-smashing list was the 24th biggest disco hit of all time, "Disco Duck." Casey proclaimed disco here to stay precisely because it was mature enough to poke fun at itself...
There will be no overnight cures, but New York Senator Moynihan calls the emerging consensus for reform a "rare alignment" that could effect worthwhile change. -- Robert Gates succeeds his ailing mentor William Casey as CIA Director. -- Gary Hart is the Voyager of American politics: lean, / proficient and built for the long haul...